Technology fusion and the new R &amp; D

Kodama, Fumio

doi:10.1016/0024-6301(93)90314-6

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“…The successful recombining of existing knowledge in novel ways through networks (Nelson and Winter 1982) involving knowledge 'collisions' and 'transpositions' (Powell and Grodal 2005) is an example of the effective miscibility of knowledge. Similarly, combining different fields of knowledge creation, such as technology fusion (Kodama 1992), represents effective knowledge miscibility (Cantwell 2005). Network capital investments, however, may become ineffective if there is knowledge equivalence between organizations due to similarities in knowledge profiles, which results in network redundancy (Cowan et al 2004).…”

Section: Knowledge Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

2015

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Despite the growing acknowledgement that entrepreneurship is an important driver of regional innovation and growth, the role of the networks in these processes has been less formally examined. In order to address this gap, this paper proposes that the relationship between entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth is governed by a series of network dynamics. Drawing upon aspects of endogenous growth theory and the knowledge spillover theory of entrepreneurship, it is proposed that the nature of the networks formed by entrepreneurial firms is a key determinant of regional growth differentials. In particular, network capital, in the form of investments in strategic relations to gain access to knowledge, is considered to mediate the relationship between entrepreneurship and innovation-based regional growth. It is suggested that network dynamics should be further incorporated into theories concerning the link between knowledge spillovers, entrepreneurship and regional growth. The paper concludes with a series of theoretical, entrepreneurial and policy implications emerging from the study.

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Section: Knowledge Dynamicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

2015

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“…As earlier discussed, 4 An influential Harvard Business Review article by Kodama (1992) heralded the merits of the then-distinctively Japanese practice of placing cooperative innovation under protective organizational umbrellas: most notably the well-known MITI-led consortia, but trade associations and keiretsu groupings as well (Rtischev and Cole, 2003;Schaede, 2006). He singled out for particular praise the Sumitomo (horizontal) group alliance in semiconductors.…”

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Business groups, networks, and embeddedness: innovation and implementation alliances in Japanese electronics, 1985–1998

Lincoln¹,

Guillot²,

Sargent³

2016

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This paper examines the changing process of strategic alliance formation in the Japanese electronics industry between 1985 and 1998. With data on 123-135 Japanese electronics/electrical machinery makers, we use a dyad panel regression methodology to address a series of hypotheses drawn largely from embeddedness theory on how the firms' horizontal and vertical keiretsu business group affiliations and prior alliance networks supported and constrained partner choice in new R&D (innovation) and nonR&D (implementation) domestic economy alliances. We find that in the first half of our series (1985-91; the "preburst" period) keiretsu served as infrastructure or platform for new strategic alliances that had both innovation and implementation goals. In the second half of our series (1992-98, the "postbubble" period) the keiretsu effects on innovation alliance formation were gone, but the groups' role in nonR&D or implementation alliances, the purpose of which was often cost reduction, had expanded. Our results suggest that Japanese electronics firms over this interval of time adapted rationally to the heightened uncertainty and stringency of the Japanese domestic economic environment by searching outside their preexisting networks for innovation alliances while at the same time exploiting those networks for implementation alliances addressed to cost-reduction and other operational aims. The study speaks to embeddedness theory in showing that economic actors are not deterministically constrained by business group or other preexisting network ties but may in rational fashion exploit or abandon those ties with an eye to advancing corporate and alliance goals.3

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“…Similarly, combining different fields of knowledge creation, such as technology fusion (Kodama, 1992), represents effective knowledge miscibility (Cantwell, 2005). According to Quatraro (2010), knowledge is the outcome of a combinatorial search activity carried out across a technological space in which combinable elements reside.…”

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A Network-based view of regional growth

Huggins

Thompson

2013

Journal of Economic Geography

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The need to better understand the mechanisms underlying regional growth patterns is widely recognised. This paper argues that regional growth is partly a function of the value created through inter-organisational flows of knowledge within and across regions. It is proposed that investment in calculative networks by organisations to access knowledge is a form of capital, termed network capital, which should be incorporated into regional growth models. The paper seeks to develop a framework to capture the value of network capital within these models based on the spatial configuration and the nature of the knowledge flowing through networks.

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Technology fusion and the new R & D

Cited by 154 publications

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Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

Entrepreneurship, innovation and regional growth: a network theory

Business groups, networks, and embeddedness: innovation and implementation alliances in Japanese electronics, 1985–1998

A Network-based view of regional growth

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